«ain't no stoppin' us now»
american r&b singer john whitehead, best known for the 1979 hit song «ain't no stoppin' us now», has been shot dead in philadelphia's west oak lane neighbourhood, while he and another man, also wounded, were mending his car in the street.i'd never heard of whitehead, his singing partner gene mcfadden nor the hit that that made them famous. but whitehead's pointless death caught my attention and so did the lyrics of his hit song, which seem as meaningful today as they would any time in history.
there've been so many things that have held us down
but now it looks like things are finally comin' around, i know we've got a long long way to go, and where we'll end up, i don't know but we won't let nothing hold us back we gonna get ourselves together we gonna polish up our act, and if you've ever been held down before i know that you refuse to be held down any more, don't you let nothing stand in your way i want you to listen to every word i say about it ain't no stoppin' us now we're on the move ain't no stoppin' us now we've got the groove ain't no stoppin' us now [...] | look, lemme tell you this
i know you know someone who's got a negative vibe and if you only help it will only keep it alive they really don't have nowhere to go ask 'em where they're going they don't know but we won't let nothing hold us back we gonna get ourselves together, come on we gonna polish up our act, and if you've ever been held down before i know that you refuse to be held down any more don't you let nothing (i won't do it) stand in your way and all we gonna do i want you to listen to every word i say about it |
